The Book of Wild Flowers: Color Plates of 250 Wild Flowers and Grasses
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The Book of Wild Flowers - The National Geographic Society
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Copyright © 2020 by Dover Publications, Inc.
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Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2020, reproduces all of the 120 color plates by Mary E. Eaton and the 8 plates by E. J. Geske previously published in The Book of Wild Flowers by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., in 1924. For this edition, the 8 plates on black backgrounds by E. J. Geske have been combined and printed as Plates 58 and 59.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: National Geographic Society (U.S.), author. | Eaton, Mary E., illustrator.
Title: The book of wild flowers: color plates of 250 wild flowers and grasses / National Geographic Society; plates by Mary E. Eaton and E. J. Geske.
Description: Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2020. | This Dover edition, first published in 2020, reproduces all of the 120 color plates by Mary E. Eaton and the 8 plates by E. J. Geske previously published in The Book of Wild Flowers by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., in 1924.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054626 | ISBN 9780486840949 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Flowers—United States. | Wild flowers—United States. | Grasses—United States.
Classification: LCC QK115 .N3 2020 | DDC 582.130973—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054626
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